Emperor Ming Fengyunlu

Volume 5 Lying on the Salary and Tasting the Courage

Chapter 5 The Heroic Tragedy of the Battle of Liao Shen

Section 11 The Bloody Battle of the Hunhe River (9)

At the beginning of the rising sun, tens of thousands of Jiannu troops drove out of the camp against the rising sun and set up a position two miles away from the Qijia army camp. I saw that the army with yellow flags was in the middle of the formation, the two white flag armies were on the left, the two blue flag armies were on the right, and the two red flags were in front of the array, acting as the vanguard of the Jiannu army, making the final preparations before the attack; In front of the two red flag armies, there were more than 30 artillery pieces lined up in turn, the muzzles of the black holes pointed straight in the direction of the Qi family army camp, dozens of gunners were busy under the supervision of the Jiannu soldiers, and Li Yongfang took a few personal soldiers to shout and shout on the side, wanting to behave well in front of the master.

Nurhachi sat straight on his horse, looked around at the tens of thousands of troops around, and the pride in his heart recovered a little, and said secretly: "Hmph! These dozens of artillery pieces have arrived, and today I will definitely break the Qi family's army into pieces! ”

At the same time, Tong Zhonghua and Chen Ce were also busy in the camp of the Qi family's army, and the two commanded all the soldiers to hurry up and prepare thousands of bags of soil last night, all of which were piled up in the north of the camp, hoping to resist the artillery fire of Jiannu and reduce the casualties of the soldiers.

And Qi Jin, Zhang Mingshi, Deng Qilong, Yuan Jianlong and other generals were also ready to fight at this time, and they were fighting the enemy together with their soldiers. At the same time, Qi Jin also mobilized 300 soldiers from the east, west, and south of the camp, half of the bird's gunners and half of the hand-to-hand soldiers, and reinforced them to the north of the camp, ready to give the Jiannu army a blow. As for the rest of the defenders to the east, west, and south, Qi Jin remained in place, guarding against a possible attack by Jiannu.

In order to better defend the camp, Tong Zhonghua and Chen Ce also discussed the defense issue with Qi Jin, and finally the three decided: Qi Jin personally led the main force of the Qi family army to defend the north of the camp, the staff general Zhang Mingshi led the troops to guard the west of the camp, the chief soldier Tong Zhonghua led the troops to guard the east, and the garrison Deng Qilong and Yuan Jianlong, the general of Qian, led more than 100 white pole soldiers and some Qi soldiers to defend the south, and Chen Ce sat in the Chinese army.

As soon as the generals took their positions, they heard a low horn sound from the Jiannu camp, and then they heard a loud bang, and Jiannu opened fire!

"Boom!" A cannon directly hit the gate of the Qi family army camp, and immediately broke the gate of the Qi family, and the flying sawdust stabbed many surrounding Qi family army soldiers. Then, the camp wall near the gate of the big camp slowly fell, and a large piece was vacated.

Seeing this, Qi Jin glared angrily and shouted loudly: "The whole army is hidden!" Dodge the cannons! ”

As soon as the words fell, I saw more than 30 artillery pieces in front of the Jiannu formation roaring one after another, and dozens of hot cannons roared and smashed into the Qijia army camp. However, the artillery fire on the Jiannu side was very fierce, and the soldiers of the Qi family army inevitably suffered casualties, and many soldiers were hit by the cannons and fell in a pool of blood, and they couldn't survive; Or they were hit by flying stones and sawdust, and they cried out in pain.

The artillery fire continued for four rounds, and Li Yongfang saw that the artillery that continued to fire had begun to turn red and hot, so he hurriedly sent someone to report to Nurhachi, requesting that the shelling be suspended and that the artillery should be cooled down before continuing the shelling.

After a while, Nurhachi sent a will: "Continue to shell the camp of the Qi family's army, and if you don't have a will, you can't stop, and those who violate the order will be killed on the spot!" ”

Li Yongfang's face was like ashes immediately, and after thinking for a while, he asked his subordinates to continue to supervise the gunners to fire, and then he hurriedly dodged, for fear that if he ran slowly, he would let the exploding cannon blow up.

Qi Jin hid in the corner of a dirt bag wall, and the dust that was constantly raised almost buried him, and the whole person was disgraced. After hiding for a while, Qi Jin strangely found that Jiannu's artillery had never stopped, and said secretly: "Jiannu only has more than 30 artillery, and it has been fighting for such a long time, it stands to reason that it should have stopped cooling heat a long time ago, why are you still fighting?" ”

At this moment, Qi Jin suddenly heard a loud bang in the Jiannu array, followed by two loud noises in succession, and the Jiannu array suddenly stirred.

Qi Jin's heart was ecstatic, and he shouted loudly: "The Jiannu artillery has exploded!" Brothers, line up! It's war! ”

The surrounding Qi family soldiers had long been holding back their anger, and when they heard that the Jiannu artillery had exploded, they were all overjoyed, and they all poked their heads out and looked around, and sure enough, they didn't see the cannon fall again, so they ran out and began to assemble.

Nurhachi looked at the Qi family's army camp that gradually appeared from the smoke and dust from a distance, kicked Li Yongfang who was kneeling on the ground beside him, and shouted: "Isn't it just three or four artillery pieces that have been blown up?" Why did the rest of the artillery also stop! Why not keep firing! ”

Li Yongfang was kicked to the ground, and then quickly got up and knelt on the ground, and said: "Qi Qi Khan, the rest of the artillery is also red, and it needs to be dissipated immediately, otherwise it will definitely explode!" Just now, more than a dozen of those gunners had been killed, and the rest of them said that they didn't want to continue firing. Shu Weichen is incompetent, and the minister has already killed several gunners Liwei, but the remaining gunners are still willing to die rather than come forward to load the artillery. ”

Nurhachi forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart and said, "When those cannons can continue to fire, report to me immediately!" ”

"Command!"

Then, Nurhachi said to Daishan: "Great Belle, immediately lead the two red flags to attack!" ”

Dai Shan took the order and left, and after a while, the two red flags and 20,000 troops let out a burst of shouts and killed the Qi family army camp. Among them, 8,000 iron horsemen took the lead, roaring and rushing towards the area around Yuanmen, which had been destroyed by artillery.

Qi Jin immediately roared: "Bird hand ready!" ”

Eight hundred bird-bearers were divided into four columns, each with two hundred people, holding black and shiny bird-guns, staring calmly ahead. After hearing the commander's order, the eight hundred soldiers roared in unison: "Tiger! Tiger! Tiger! At the same time, they all stepped forward, and the two hundred soldiers in the first row aimed their excellent bird guns at the Jiannu army in front.

"Put!"

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

The Qi family army launched a deadly counterattack, and the eight hundred bird guns were like a sophisticated killing machine, constantly harvesting the lives of Jiannu with the bird guns in their hands, and the smoke that continued to ignite soon shrouded the vicinity of Yuanmen, like a fairyland.

Dai Shan was in the middle of the battle, and saw his two red flag warriors constantly rushing into the smoke in front of him, going forward one after another, and being extremely brave, but only the mechanical and rhythmic roar of birds came into his ears, and there was no trace of fighting.

Dai Shan's heart felt very uneasy, and he was just about to transfer troops to attack again, when he suddenly saw the army in front of him retreating in a panic, and many Jiannu soldiers panicked, and even rushed into Dai Shan's Chinese army.

"What for! Those who retreat from the battle will be killed! Dai Shan yelled, but to no avail.

Suddenly, Dai Shan inadvertently saw the Qi family army in front of him shrouded in smoke, at this time he couldn't hear the roar of the birds, only to see the smoke gradually dissipate, and what came into Dai Shan's eyes was only the corpses of the two red flag soldiers everywhere, and the Qi family's army's solid military formation like Mount Tai.

"Bastard thing! Kill me! ”

Dai Shan shouted in vain, and was soon swept back to the Jiannu main camp by the defeated soldiers of the two red flags.

Nurhachi looked at the defeated army of the two red flags, his face was expressionless, and he just said lightly: "Two white flags, attack!" ”

Huang Taiji and Azig knew that Nurhachi had made up their minds to destroy the Qi family army at any cost, and at this time the two were also ruthless, quickly gathered an army of 20,000, and replaced the two red banner soldiers and horses to kill them.

Seeing this, Qi Jin responded calmly and shouted loudly: "Bird hands are ready!" Put! ”

The sound of a bird like the sound of death sounded again, only this time the hapless ghost who had fallen into the arms of hell was replaced by an army of two white flags.

Seeing that the warriors under his command kept falling on the way to the charge, no matter how brave they were, they couldn't rush to the close combat in front of the Qi family's army, Huang Taiji and Azig were shocked, and at the same time felt a tingling pain, after this battle, how many warriors could be left in the two white flags?

Soon, the army of the two white flags was defeated like the two red flags, and Huang Taiji and Azig returned to their camp and pleaded guilty to Nurhachi in frustration, but the two did not hear any words of punishment, only one sentence: "Two blue flags, attack!" ”

Looking at the two blue flag armies that attacked, Qi Jin's face became a little grim, at this time, the Qi family army had not much gunpowder in storage, and if it continued like this, the Qi family army could only kill the enemy in close combat. Although the soldiers were not afraid, how could the soldiers of the Qi family's army, who were absolutely weak in terms of troops, fight over the tens of thousands of Jiannu troops who attacked regardless of casualties?

Seeing that the two blue flag armies had rushed within the range of the birds, Qi Jin didn't have time to think about it and hurriedly ordered to shoot.

With the roar of hundreds of birds, the two blue flag armies were like a water dog, wailing incessantly on the battlefield.

Suddenly, the sound of birds that frightened the two blue flag Jiannu stopped, and nearly 20,000 Jiannu ran forward in disbelief, not knowing what tricks those demon-like Qi family troops had played.

Amin and Mang Gurtai were also puzzled, and just about to order the whole army to rush up to melee combat at this opportunity, they found that those Qi family troops actually rushed out by themselves, only to see that those Qi family troops were still a team of about ten people, forming that strange formation and fighting with the two blue flag warriors.

"Those Qi family troops are out of gunpowder! Their bird guns are useless! Amin understood it in an instant and immediately shouted loudly.

Mang Gurtai immediately sent people back to report to Nurhachi, and then gathered troops and horses to supervise the onslaught.

Just when Amin and Mang Gultai were ecstatic, they found that the two Blue Banner armies were retreating step by step, and they were defeated after a while.

Amin and Mang Gurtai couldn't understand why the warriors in their banner were still defeated when those Qi family troops had no sharp birds?

The two feared that they would be severely punished by Nurhachi if they returned, so they tried their best to crush the troops in an attempt to save the situation. At this moment, Amin and Mang Gultai received an order from Nurhachi: "Immediately lead the army to retreat!" ”